Campus Life

Vani and Lester Ng '93

Making a foreign country feel like home

Alumnus Lester Ng helps international students thrive at UCI with contribution through the university’s $1 billion Shaping the Future campaign

Summit hosted by UCI, O.C. United Way alliance will address county's social issues

EVENT: The University of California, Irvine and Orange County United Way have partnered to form O.C. Working Together, which is hosting a daylong summit to improve and expand collective efforts to help the county’s least fortunate. UCI faculty and graduate students, O.C. United Way leaders, chief executives from O.C. nonprofits, religious leaders and elected officials will […]

UCI students set new Guinness world record

Waves of Anteaters – 2,888, to be exact – clash in epic battle of capture the flag

NYT ranks UCI No. 1 in nation for outreach to low-income students

The New York Times has named UCI No. 1 among U.S. universities that do the most for low-income students. The 2015 rankings were presented at The New York Times’ Schools for Tomorrow conference by David Leonhardt, editor of NYT website The Upshot, which first published the list in 2014. Last year’s rankings were highly influential, […]

Jorge Cisneros

Jorge Cisneros named new chief of UCI Police Department

25-year veteran of law enforcement most recently led force in Huntington Park

Campus statement on flying the American flag

In March of this year, six undergraduate members of the UCI’s student-government Legislative Council passed a bill that banned hanging a flag from any nation in the common lobby area of the student government offices. The legislation was vetoed by the Executive Cabinet of the student government within days. This decision was not endorsed or […]

Workers install solar panels atop the campus’s Student Center Parking Structure

UCI: We're the coolest

Campus is first in Sierra magazine’s green schools ranking for second year in a row

Workers install solar panels atop the campus’s Student Center Parking Structure

We're the coolest

Campus is first in Sierra magazine’s green schools ranking for second year in a row

Incoming freshmen planning to major in biological sciences receive academic advising during SPOP

A fresh perspective

Incoming freshmen share what they like best about UCI and why they’re excited to be starting this chapter of their lives

In memoriam: Carolyn Boyd, professor emerita of history

Carolyn Boyd, UCI professor emeritus of history, died July 19 at 71. A distinguished historian of modern Spain, she taught at UCI from 1999 to 2010, serving as professor of history, chair of history and dean of graduate studies.